Conveyors: power-driven – Conveyor system having a gravity conveyor section – With means to affect flow
Patent
1980-02-13
1982-08-10
Reeves, Robert B.
Conveyors: power-driven
Conveyor system having a gravity conveyor section
With means to affect flow
198786, B65G 4704, B65G 1302
Patent
active
043433936
ABSTRACT:
A hopper for feeding fruit in several transversely spaced lanes from a supply conveyor to the pick-up positions of a fruit feeder includes several drums mounted in spaced and downwardly inclined relationships. The spacing between the adjacent drums is adapted for the reception of a single file of fruit, and the inclination of the drums is sufficient to cause the fruit to gravitate downwardly to the feeder pick-up positions. A push-pull drive mechanism is provided to pivot the drums back and forth about their axes of rotation to cause the fruit to spin as they gravitate downwardly between the drums. Such spinning action facilitates rapid feeding of the fruit downwardly between the drums and, in particular, prevents irregularly shaped citrus fruit such as tangerines or lemsons from becoming enlodged against each other to thereby interrupt their flow to the pick-up positions.
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Bond Brian
FMC Corporation
Megley Richard B.
Pizzanelli Louis J.
Reeves Robert B.
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